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The resources are endless for media projection and how this technology begins to interact with the public. I’m touching the tip of this topic, as there are a variety of ways to to project images, movies, etc, or simply hang a thoughtfully designed material. So, here are a few inspirational images and ideas out there..
Media for projecting images/art/information
Fabric- Yale Architecture student Nathan Hume’s proposal-
Buildings
Scrims- light textile made from cotton, used commonly in theatre. Wiki says “The advantage of scrims is that when lit from the front they can appear opaque to the audience, until a change in stage lighting (lighting from behind) makes them almost fully transparent.” 
Projecting images/light onto water
Glass- Colored glass, or images projected onto glass.
Dichroic glass- light reactive, film coated glass (entered public art in the 80’s) 
Ray King
High tech LED display- Times Square
LCD Screens- The famous Millenium Park in Chicago. 
Textile backed Projection Screen Surfaces- hangs flat 100 % Vinyl (unsupported) screen materials- Fixed wall, usually with roller screens with tensioning abilities
Technology- “City Wall” supports media, local knowledge, and interaction in this installation piece. Pretty cool.
Joost van Santen uses light filtering materials to integrate light in architectural settings. Click on “home” to see more images.
Ray King (Philadelphia) creates futuristic glass and steel sculptures that interact with natural and artificial light.
Towards An Integrated Architectural Media Space- good article on new uses of media in the landscape.
Projection & Public Space has links of projects throughout the world. Graffiti Analysis is worth checking out.
Lumen! Tons of images with projections..
Just found this last website- Interactive Architecture.org SWEET!
giving another meaning to “space” projection. ha! this is cool though. sit back and enjoy more coming soon…
LIGHT: affecting space and perception, movement. contemplation. mood.
James Irwin
At the moment, what I am envisioning for the space has to do with these ideas:
Concept_
Artificial light + sunlight = ? or… exploiting one or the other
Skrims- change light path, could be used for movies, projecting images, football games
Installations- with light? with canvas? utilize light to morph/distort/change without being too distracting
mirrors? probably not.
intersections, yes.
sound absorption, yes.
Program_
Outdoor seating/relaxing for residents and customers- adjacent to Georges
Courtyard (cozy) feel for residents who need gathering space
Planting- planters for seating, creating space, linear bike/pedestrian path
Raised gathering area?- informal seating
Steps, ramps, some change in elevation, create interest, deck-ish thing for bands?? noise issue with that?
Path system running through and connecting to streets,
Part of larger circulation system (BREC implemented paths through BR)
Precedent_
Robert Irwin- use of space and light
James Turrell
Overwhelming vibrations,
Crackling of the pavement.
Beating of vehicles
Penetrating the senses.
A composition of sounds, feelings, perceptions…
It’s as if I left a rock concert.
** is this a funny ending?
This was a quick poem I wrote on the feelings of vibration and sound underneath the overpass. I did not have a good way to represent the sound, but I found it the most intense of all experiences beneath the overpass.
The event that I am capturing is the volume, particles, and reach of light.
The new studio project is a design for the Perkins Road underpass, below the I-10 expressway. More to come…
The concept of conduction initially inspired my design concept, inundation. I explored this through an understanding of the movement and formations created during conduction.
con·duc·tion n. The transmission or conveying of something through a medium or passage, especially the transmission of electric charge or heat through a conducting medium without perceptible motion of the medium itself.
I found compelling images of a heart beat and graphics of the ventricles that worked together to create one heart beat.
This pen drawing inspired path systems and wetlands in the park.
After researching the history of the site (once a wetland), I decided to create a site responsive to fluctuations in the hydrology and hopefully create a meaningful design for Donnelly Park as well as other New Orleans parks. The final design involved creating an urban wetland that adapted according to the level of storm water runoff from the surrounding neighborhood. The temporal aspect of the landscape is developed through the concept of the park becoming inundated.
| inundation | |
| noun | |
| 1. | the rising of a body of water and its overflowing onto normally dry land; “plains fertilized by annual inundation |
I explored three flow systems of hydrology, planting, and program through diagramming. As the water inundates the site, less plant material becomes apparent, the pathways change, and the programming is altered. The planting design consists of submerged (nymphaea odorata water lily), emergent (iris versicolor harlequin blueflag, lachnocaulon bog buttons), and meadow/upland (saururus cernuus, lizard’s tail spartina alternaflora) plant species. The hydrology and path systems follow the design of the heart. When the site is fully inundated, a pathway of perfect arcs emerges and all that revealed are the strong curves of the paths created by the changes in the water level.
I planted groves of Acer Rubrum (Swamp Red Maples) and Quercus virginiana (Southern Live Oaks), with Taxodium distichum (Bald Cypress) trees on the edges of the wetlands. The north end of the park is used for the soil that is removed to create the wetlands. This is planted with grass and becomes the viewing mound for the rest of the park. Beyond it, I put in fencing and a row of Acer Rubrum to act as a buffer to the surrounding neighborhood.
The wetlands are designed to channel the water into the park, cleanse the water of nitrogen and phosphorous, and slowly drain into a cistern for eventual removal to the pump system. This filtration system is designed to promote the movement of water, so as to deter unwanted mosquitoes.
The design concept creates a landscape of rhythm and human activity. As the water levels rises and falls, the ephemeral quality of the landscape is exposed.
